Emotional neighbor charged in Baytown woman's death

Emotional neighbor charged in woman's death

HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Published 5:30 am, Saturday, August 21, 2010

A Baytown man who was emotional in the media after his neighbor was fatally stabbed in June has been charged in the woman’s death. Isaac Norvell Smith, 46, was arrested Friday night by Baytown Police Department detectives after DNA evidence linked him to “key locations within the crime scene,” officials said. He has been charged with capital murder in the death of Julia Muckleroy. Muckleroy, 71, called Baytown police around 8:15 a.m. June 17 saying she was being attacked in her home. Officers arrived in the 300 block of North Street and found Muckleroy with multiple stab wounds on her neck. She died at Memorial Hermann Hospital-The Texas Medical Center. Later that day, Smith was filmed crying as he explained the kindness and generosity of “Miss Julie.”